Omar Collymore and wife Simone Campbell-Collymore
By Racquel Porter
Omar Collymore, who is on trial for allegedly orchestrating the murder of his wife, Simone Campbell-Collymore, and co-accused Michael 'Crayboss' Adams, have a case to answer.
The men are each facing two counts of murder and conspiracy to murder in connection to the killings of the 32-year-old businesswoman and her taxi driver, Winston Corey Walters, on January 2, 2018.
But Justice Leighton Pusey, in handing down the ruling on Thursday in the Home Circuit Court, required additional time to deliver a ruling in respect to the other two alleged accomplices, Dwayne Pink and Shaquilla Edwards.
The ruling follows no-case submissions by the defence on Wednesday.
The prosecution closed its case on Tuesday.
In proving, its case the prosecution called 25 witnesses including confessed killer Wade Blackwood.
In February when the trial started, the prosecution told jurors that Mr. Collymore hired Mr. Adams to facilitate the murder of his wife and that Mr. Edwards and Mr. Pink allegedly played a role in surveilling the businesswoman's movements before her death.
During his testimony, Mr. Blackwood said he was one of the men on the motorbikes that rode up and sprayed the victims with bullets as they waited to be let inside Mrs. Campbell-Collymore's Forest Ridge apartment complex in Red Hills, St. Andrew.
Blackwood, a confessed member of the Unruly Gang, who is currently serving two life sentences for the murders, had disclosed that he got the price tag from one of the other shooters, 'Jim', the now-deceased leader of the gang.
He also testified that Adams was the contract killer and was the one who spoke with the man who had ordered the hit on the woman.
Among the evidence presented was that Mr. Collymore was the beneficiary on his wife's multi-million dollar life insurance policies, one of which was taken out less than three months before she was murdered.
Phone data evidence was also presented in court.
It also showed that there was continuous communication between Mr. Collymore and the alleged contract killer in the days leading up to his wife's murder.
The judge is expected to deliver his decision in respect to Mr. Pink and Mr. Edwards on Monday when the defence will commence its case in the Home Circuit Court.
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